Written by Elizabeth Underwood, (Washington and Lee University) Student Correspondent Middlebury School in China: Hangzhou, Fall 2018 In my final blog post, I want to reflect on the activities that I did, as well as aspects of this program in China that really made this time abroad memorable. It’s hard to face the reality that […]

Written by Fina Short, (Tufts University) Student Correspondent Middlebury School in China: Kunming, Fall 2018 I almost spit out my first breakfast bun. The morning of my first day in Kunming, my roommate took me to the best 包子 (bāozi) place on our street before class, ordering us two steaming bowls of red bean and […]

Written by Elizabeth Underwood, (Washington and Lee University) Student Correspondent Middlebury School in China: Hangzhou, Fall 2018 During the first week of November, our program traveled to the Hangzhou countryside to live with a Chinese family and research different aspects of the Chinese country lifestyle. This activity allowed us to take a break from the […]

Written by Fina Short, (Tufts University) Student Correspondent Middlebury School in China: Kunming, Fall 2018 China looked calm from the bullet train window. Gliding through rice paddies and winding mountain passages at 200 km per hour, our program was headed to the remote village of 喜洲 (Xǐ zhōu) for five days of hiking, exploring and studying […]

Written by Elizabeth Underwood, (Washington and Lee University) Student Correspondent Middlebury School in China: Hangzhou, Fall 2018 Moving halfway around the world to a foreign country already comes with its own set of challenges, but obeying to a language pledge for a semester is its own unique challenge meant to drastically improve students’ language skills. […]